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DOLE to regularize 300,000 ‘endo’ employees in 2018 The Department of Labor and Employment is aiming to regularize up to 300,000 “endo” or contractual employees on less than six month deals.

Eleven percent of the total 52,280 Filipinos who have HIV and AIDS are migrant workers, a party-list representative said on Sunday.

by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) – Apr 8, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Economists now see inflation surpassing the four percent upper target set by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which may prompt monetary authorities to raise interest rates as early as this quarter.

BY THE MANILA TIMES, APR 8, 2018 THE small, vocal advocacy for the resurrection of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), by now Southeast Asia’s most famous white elephant, is remarkably resilient, so there is little reason to believe that yet another reality-based rejection of their cause will stop them or even slow them down.

by Patrizia Paola C. Marcelo, Businessworld, Apr 8, 2018 PHILIPPINE smartphone shipments declined by 7% to about 15 million units in 2017, the International Data Corp. (IDC) said.

ABS-CBN News, Apr 07, 2018 HomeJobs Philippines, an Australian-led job search firm, will soon launch in the Philippines to provide free platform for Filipinos who are looking to find home-based work.

by ABS-CBN News Apr 07, 2018 Nasagip ng mga pulis ang limang menor de edad mula sa isang itikan sa Pampanga Biyernes ng gabi kung saan umano sila pinagtatrabaho sa nakapanlulumong kondisyon.

World leaders urged to act as anger over inequality reaches a ‘tipping point’ by Michael Savage Policy editor, Apr 7, 2018 The world’s richest 1% are on course to control as much as two-thirds of the world’s wealth by 2030, according to a shocking analysis that has lead to a cross-party call for action.

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By GERARD NAVAL, Apr 06, 2018 JOLLIBEE Foods Corp. (JFC) may have to regularize up to 50,000 more contractual employees, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said yesterday.

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By Nelson S. Badilla, Businessmirror, Apr 5, 2018 Citing the order handed down recently by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to Jolibee Food Corp., a labor group advocating the end of job contractualization, or endo, expressed belief that President Duterte, through the DOLE, can do a much better job in regularizing more contractual…

By: Daxim L. Lucas – Reporter / @daxinq Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 05, 2018 The central bank has finally hinted at acting against the accelerating pace of price increases in the country, hours after the government announced that the March inflation rate blew past official estimates to hit a five-year high.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 05, 2018 The Philippines may soon lose its eligibility for a trade perk from the European Union (EU) which is aimed at poorer nations, in view of a report that says the country may reach upper middle income status in 2019.

By: Ben O. de Vera, INQ Inquirer Business, Apr 05, 2018 Consumer prices rose 4.3 percent in March or above the government’s 2-4 percent target range for 2018 on the back of a double-digit jump in prices of “sin” products last month.

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by Rey Gamboa (The Philippine Star) – Apr 3, 2018 The face of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is one that has shown the fastest change in the last couple of years, and this is largely due to the equally fast changing world of information technology and developments in artificial intelligence.

by ABS-CBN News, Apr 02 2018 Walang kapangyarihan ang ehekutibong sangay ng gobyerno para tapusin ang kalakalan ng “endo” o “end of contract,” ayon mismo sa isang opisyal ng Palasyo.

by Rina Chandran, Reuters, Mar 30, 2018 PAMANTINGAN, Philippines (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she had to do: move to the city of Koronadal, about an hour away by bus, and find work as a domestic helper to…

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), Mar 29, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Digital payments provider PayPal plans to grow its business in the Philippines amid positive outlook on the freelance market.

by KARL R. OCAMPO, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mar 29, 2018 The local mining sector is expecting a tougher business environment this year as the return of Indonesia to the international market is seen to pose stiff competition, said the chief of the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP).

By PEEWEE BACUÑO, BAP, GMA News, Mar 28, 2018 Sugatan ang driver at ang pahinante ng isang truck matapos itong bumangga sa isang water tank at mahulog sa palayan sa Eco-Tourism Road, Barangay Guis-Guis, Sariaya, Quezon Miyerkules ng hapon.

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According to leadership development consultants Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, these are the skills that leaders need to succeed. by Peter Economy, March 28, 2018 Leadership was once called by historian James MacGregor Burns “one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.” Given the results of some recent research, this no longer…

by Malaya, Mar 26, 2018 THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday rejected calls to criminalize employers’ failure to comply with occupational safety and health standards (OSHS).

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by India-West Staff Reporter, Mar 26, 2018 U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has introduced a bill that attempts to keep call-center jobs in the United States as opposed to moving them offshore to Indian companies or elsewhere.

by Tetch Torres-Tupas, Mar 26, 2018 The Supreme Court’s decision declaring as legal the retrenchment of some 1,400 flight attendants and stewards of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) in 1998 “involves the miraculous resurrection of the dead,” Associate Justice Marvic Leonen said in his dissenting opinion.

by Daxim L. Lucas, Inquirer, Mar 26, 2018 Confidence among Filipino consumers — traditionally some of the most profligate in the region — nearly evaporated in the first quarter of the year, with most citing rising prices of goods and services as the main reason for the decline in their optimism.